#briternatural

i need to watch this like what the fuck even is it i dunno but it’s good all of a sudden apparently

i was also talking it over with maya in school earlier today and a variant of solution 1 she suggested is using a different punctuation style? like maybe guillemets or something. (e.g. «Well, this sucks,» he muttered.)

the thing is that some of the things i'm planning are pretty damn hard to translate. like, tiny little words and phrases here and there are fine: they can be translated in-line, or maybe just at the start of the story and then as we get into it the really basic stuff is just assumed to be known. and even with words like hiraeth the translation can be discussed in-story, because that makes a bit more sense. but then you get things like halennig, which is the sort of really shitty pun i pride myself on ('halen' means 'salt', 'calennig' depends but generally means a gift given at the new year) which would require like DEATH BY FOOTNOTES. 

i'm planning to post this sorta thing on ao3 so i could more easily make footnotes there (which would be more mobile friendly), perhaps inline with the mouseover. btw the way the mouseover works is that you use an HTML link tag and give it a title but no actual address? if you're on mobile rn this probably won't work but here's an example: nadolig llawen

Why not have Williams and then use other-hunters confusion for comedy? With other Williams being as useful as Shadwell’s witchhunters.

I love this idea, but I'm getting more and more drawn to Roderick (see earlier response to standpi) and the rewrite's not intended to be comedic. But moments of humour/realism do make a work better...

Wales is... not particularly known for its firearms manufacturing industry. But the point about not necessarily going for gun makers prompted me to look up famous sword makers, and then I looked up famous swords full stop, and then I found one...

In Welsh legend there is a sword called Dyrnwyn. To quote Wikipedia: "When drawn, it blazed with fire; if drawn by a worthy man, the fire would help him in his cause, but its fire would burn the man who drew it for an unworthy purpose." Appropriate for a hunting family, no?

And it was owned by a king called Rhydderch Hael. Rhydderch is a Welsh given name that also appears as a surname (due to the way many people simply used their patronymic as a surname), and although very rare, it has a more common Anglicised form: Roderick.

Winchester was chosen because of the Winchester rifle- this is also the reason behind Smith and Wesson. Maybe some weaponry/rifle names?

Thank you; melting-penguins has already suggested Sterling and Webley for this reason! 

well, sterling and webley were/are british firearms makers

Sterling is a good one, but very English. Although that is perfectly possible: John was English, Mari was Welsh, they had a littler hunter baby, John wanted to name him after his father until Mari just gave him a Look and said that he was not the one who had just squeezed a baby out of a vagina, thank you very much, and so the baby was called Dafydd. Siôn would have been Sean but the registrar used the Welsh spelling.

NAME TIME

I think it's pretty much a cert that the brothers are going to be Welsh in this form of the story. But I haven't yet decided what to call them.

When I grew up in Wales I knew people with the names Sam and Dean. But if, canonically, they're named after their grandparents, they're much more likely to have more stereotypically Welsh names - not so sure about Sam, but Dean is definitely one of the names that's only started turning up in recent generations.

The names I've chosen so far are Siôn and Dai (nickname form of Dafydd), but I'm not sure whether to go for these over Sam and Dean.

Anyway, there are still surnames to deal with!

Winchester? (Not very Welsh.) Caerwynt? (Welsh translation of the place-name Winchester; may or may not be a realistic surname.) Williams? (Plausible, but it's a common enough surname in the UK that if there was another hunter family called Williams things would get really confusing.)

And what about the parents? Unchanged? Welsh-ified? Something else entirely?

[ standpi klassicalkelt candyexorcist plus any other SPN fans who follow me ]

The closest equivalent of Sam being about to head off to law school I can think of is about to start a Law course at uni, or perhaps having completed his LLB and about to start his LLM. If he was about to start his LLM, then 22 would be around about right. However, if he was about to start his LLB course (which I think is closer to what happens in the original show?) then even if he took a gap year, he’d be around 19. Which would make all the emotional torture so much more fun, right? (◠◡◠✿)

I’m not entirely sure? But I suspect it would be a lot harder for the Winchesters to be ‘ghosts in the system’. CCTV could get extremely problematic, for one thing. For another, with all the car parks they stay in they’d definitely need to either use stolen cars (unlikely because it would probably sharply increase the UK’s car crime rate) or pay road tax.